OK - nice easy game this time with an absolute plethora on L1/2/5 rhymes, simply by preceding 'er with an -ize/-ise ending verb.

Melbourne sits at the top of Port Phillip Bay. It has a peninsula each side. One is the Bellarine Peninsula and the other is the Mornington Peninsula, home to the best run of family beaches you'll find anywhere in the world. At the tip is Portsea, where all the well to do have their beach mansions, running all the way up to the end of the line as far as CBD rail commuting is concerned, Frankston, the butt of many jokes because of its high rate of unemployed youth. In between you have the retirement capital of Victoria, Rosebud, and Dromana from where the chair-lift to the Peninsula's peak, Arthur's Seat operates. Then there's Blairgowrie, Sorrento, Mount Martha, Rye, the oddly named Tootgarook, McCrae, Mornington (which gave the Peninsula its name) and of course Mount Eliza, where a lot of those relatively well to do have their mansions, but because they still have to work, they're close enough to Frankston to do the CBD commute. All these bayside beaches are great for families because they are protected from the big Ocean Surf, which if you want it is not far away on the other side of the Peninsula's southern end.

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No submissions received by PM yet. In fact I haven't even written one myself.

Oh, sorry, Greg. I'll start thinking. While you say it is easy, it sounds hard to me!

Is the name pronounced to rhyme with "miser" or with "teaser"?

Judging by the first sentence of Greg's OP, it rhymes with "miser" (unless you pronounce words like "moralise" as "moraleez".

Yep it rhymes with miser, as in Eliza Doolittle of "Pygmalion/My Fair Lady" fame.

Still no entries yet, but my own is coming together.

I did a doubletake seeing this target. My only previous encounter with Mount Eliza was in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and then in his prequel (only four hundred years earlier) The Baroque Trilogy in which he relates how it got its name. Along with many other tidbits from Cryptonomicon. I had never heard of a real Mount Eliza until now. My parochialism is showing!

(P.S. Cryptonomicon is a wonderful, wide-ranging novel, and the Trilogy is three more of them, and the four total a good 3,500 pages. Worth making the time for, but don't say I didn't warn you!)

Oh, and "Eliza" may end in an "-er" in Oz, and also in Boston and maybe New York and Chicago, but that's the subject of satire in most of the rest of the US. It's not so easy to come up with r-less rhymes.

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Oh, and "Eliza" may end in an "-er" in Oz

It's not that it ends in an "-er" in Oz, but with our lazy speech all the "-er" words end in an "-a" for us. So a miser is a "miza" to us.

Oh, by the way Haberdasher, thanks for contributing this, and I'd love to know how Stephenson's Mount Eliza got its name.

I finally have an actual entry - thanks Richard.

This is going to be a long game at the present submission rate - only 3 entries received so far, including my own.

I'll do one tonight. Life has been busy for me!

As for the "er" and "a" at the end, in Chicago we pronounce the "er" and the "a" at the end of a word. We marvel a bit about the East and England where they take away the "er" at the end of "er" words, making it an "a;" but then they add an "er" at the end of "a" words, such as "idear" for "idea."

I will do this one like I'm an Easterner, I think.

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You now have four!

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but then they add an "er" at the end of "a" words, such as "idear" for "idea."

Not every Easterna.
I've been a bit preoccupied (not with Wall Street) but I'll try to get one out to you soon.

Mine's in!

Now we're cookin'. I've got 6 now - almost enough to put up the Poll.

I'd love to see the limericks!

OK - I'll leave it 24 hours and if there are no more by then, I'll post the Poll.

Another gem has flown your way.

The Poll is posted